{"id":7289,"date":"2026-06-15T16:35:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T16:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/is-lebanon-included-country-hopeful-for-us-iran-ceasefire-despite-doubts\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T16:35:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T16:35:53","slug":"is-lebanon-included-country-hopeful-for-us-iran-ceasefire-despite-doubts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/is-lebanon-included-country-hopeful-for-us-iran-ceasefire-despite-doubts\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Lebanon included? Country hopeful for US-Iran ceasefire, despite doubts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p><strong>Beirut, Lebanon \u2013<\/strong> On Monday morning, people in Lebanon woke up to yet another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2026\/6\/15\/iran-war-live-tehran-says-peace-deal-ends-us-blockade-war-on-all-fronts\">ceasefire agreement<\/a>. An agreement announced between the United States and Iran includes Lebanon \u2013 according to Iranian and Pakistani officials \u2013 but statements from Israeli officials cast doubt over whether the war that has been ravaging southern Lebanon since 2023 is finally over.<\/p>\n<p>Videos on Monday showed Lebanese people returning home to areas in the south of the country, though officials warned anyone from border villages not to return until the security situation becomes clearer.<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span>list of 3 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>list 1 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/6\/15\/how-pakistan-mediated-a-us-iran-agreement-after-more-than-100-days-of-war\">How Pakistan mediated a US-Iran agreement after more than 100 days of war<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 2 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/6\/15\/iran-us-agree-tentative-deal-to-end-war-your-questions-answered\">Iran, US agree tentative deal to \u2018end war\u2019: Your questions answered<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 3 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/6\/15\/iran-war-day-108-iran-us-reach-a-tentative-deal-to-end-conflict\">Iran war day 108: Iran, US reach a tentative deal to end conflict<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>Others, however, have little to return to.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Saleh, a 55-year-old from the southern village of Jwaya, has been displaced at a stadium in Beirut since early March.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI won\u2019t be heading back home,\u201d he told Al Jazeera. \u201cMy house was hit and you know the situation financially is difficult at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"lebanon-included\">Lebanon included<\/h2>\n<p>On March 2 , Israel intensified its war on Lebanon for the second time in under two years. The intensification came just a few hours after the pro-Iranian Shia group Hezbollah fired six rockets at Israel, its first response to more than 10,000 Israeli violations of the 2024 ceasefire. Hezbollah launched the attack following the February 28 killing of Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the opening salvoes of the US-Israeli war on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/6\/14\/israel-issues-forced-displacement-orders-for-29-towns-in-southern-lebanon\">Israel has killed<\/a> at least 3,783 people in Lebanon and wounded 11,699. More than 1.2 million have been displaced from the south, Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs and villages in the Bekaa Valley. Villages have been razed by Israel\u2019s military, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/features\/2026\/6\/12\/is-israels-buffer-zone-inside-lebanon-an-attempt-to-grab-gas-reserves\">which occupies large swathes<\/a> of southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, evacuation orders and widespread Israeli bombing of Tyre and Nabatieh have led to mass destruction in two of the south\u2019s most populated areas. The Lebanese army announced on Monday that people should exercise caution when returning to their homes, while Lebanese officials said that people from border villages should not yet return home.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, said the deal between the US and Iran announced \u201cthe immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was welcomed by Lebanon\u2019s President Joseph Aoun \u2013 who has been attempting to reimpose the authority of the Lebanese state in the country. Aoun said that the Lebanese people were now looking forward to \u201cthese understandings being translated into practical steps that bring a definitive end to the cycle of violence and open the way to stability, security, recovery and reconstruction\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon\u2019s Parliament Speaker and close Hezbollah ally, Nabih Berri, praised the deal and various regional actors for their role in achieving it, including Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>He also thanked Iran and the US for including a clause \u201con halting Israeli aggression against all of Lebanon, to preserve its sovereignty over its entire territory\u201d.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"another-ceasefire\">Another ceasefire?<\/h2>\n<p>Despite the trepidation, many Lebanese are already returning home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople started returning to their villages and areas and now they are waiting for the full implementation of the ceasefire and the withdrawal of the Israelis from the areas they occupied,\u201d Qassem Kassir, a Lebanese political analyst told Al Jazeera. \u201cPeople cannot get a clear read on the situation just yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This also is not the first time a ceasefire has been declared between Lebanon and Israel. The November 2024 agreement called for a withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanese land and for a cessation of hostilities, while Hezbollah was required to withdraw its armed presence north of the Litani River.<\/p>\n<p>But Israel never stopped firing on Lebanon, and Hezbollah \u2013 supported by Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) \u2013 reportedly started preparing for another round of fighting. Israel also didn\u2019t fully withdraw its troops, continuing to occupy five points along the Israeli-Lebanese border.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah has said repeatedly that it would not allow the situation to return to a pre-March 2 reality, with Israel having the freedom to attack and Hezbollah no right to respond.<\/p>\n<p>On April 16 , US President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel. The declaration brought an end to attacks on central Beirut and decreased the regularity of attacks on Beirut\u2019s suburbs, though Israel has attacked them since, including on Sunday. But the war in southern Lebanon continued unabated.<\/p>\n<p>On June 3 , Israel and Lebanon agreed to a ceasefire after a round of direct negotiations between the two countries. But that declaration had little effect as Israel kept attacking Lebanon and Hezbollah continued to fire rockets at Israeli troops in Lebanese territory and across the border.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"israel-defiant\">Israel defiant<\/h2>\n<p>Questions remain over whether the two sides will respect the ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>As of Monday afternoon, Hezbollah had not carried out any operations since the US-Iran deal was announced, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>But Lebanese state media reported that an Israeli drone strike on a car in southern Lebanon had killed its driver.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli officials have met the US-Iranian agreement\u2019s announcement with defiance. Leading politicians have repeatedly insisted that they will not accept any threat from Lebanon, and will continue to attack Hezbollah if they deem it necessary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and I are pursuing a clear policy of maintaining the Israeli army in the security zones in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza, without setting a time limit, in order to protect Israel\u2019s borders and towns from jihadist elements,\u201d Israel\u2019s Defence Minister, Israel Katz, said on Monday. \u201cWe oppose the withdrawal of the Israeli army from Lebanon, despite all current and future pressures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Analysts have expressed scepticism over the deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNetanyahu may come up with a lot of surprises, and he may have a power trip with Trump, where he tries to enforce his own terms of the deal,\u201d Karim Safieddine, a non-resident fellow with the Tahrir Institute, told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p>Political analyst Kassir said he felt that the new ceasefire was different and that the larger war was over. However, he maintained, there is still work to be done before normal life can resume in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one trusts the US or Israel,\u201d adding that for Lebanon to have long-lasting and permanent security, it still needed \u201cIsrael\u2019s withdrawal, a return of people to their villages\u201d and a defence plan that has national consensus \u2013 unlike the current polarisation that exists over Hezbollah\u2019s role in the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beirut, Lebanon \u2013 On Monday morning, people in Lebanon woke up to yet another ceasefire agreement. An agreement announced between the United States and Iran includes Lebanon \u2013 according to Iranian and Pakistani officials \u2013 but statements from Israeli officials cast doubt over whether the war that has been ravaging southern Lebanon since 2023 is &#8230; <a title=\"Is Lebanon included? 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